This just in: tools to avoid responsibility for making decisions really just bake in bias and make injustice more difficult to interrogate. It’s exactly the same with other forms of unaccountable decision-laundering and unsubstantiable suspicion. https://www.semafor.com/article/09/17/2024/black-teenagers-twice-as-likely-to-be-falsely-accused-of-using-ai-tools-in-homework
An accusation that you used a plagiarism bot is easy to make and difficult to rebut. It creates an easy excuse to mask the accuser’s racism (or classism, or transphobia, or…). Trans exclusion is an excuse to police gender & presentation for *all* women. It’s much easier to accuse someone of being trans than to prove you’re not trans (not that anyone should have to). Too femme? Could be hiding that you’re trans. Not femme enough — are you really a woman?
“Predictive policing” is just an excuse to keep sending cops into black neighborhoods so that they can continue to control black bodies through assault & execution. Other decisions made by the powerful like welfare or healthcare or parole work the same way. “Delegating” “decisions” to synthetic software-based dumbasses actively opposes the presumed goals of those systems: which is to make good decisions consistently. Instead, they achieve the actual goals of the system: creating barriers to access & avoiding accountability.
Computers are incapable of making decisions. They do not think and are not responsible for their actions. Computers have no agency; they are not moral actors. People make decisions. Saying that a computer made the decisions is just an excuse, avoiding responsibility for the decision *you’re* making. It’s like flipping a coin and then pretending that the coin made the decision.
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